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Black Market Dealer

A real-time crime management sim where you build a black market empire from a single hustle to a global operation. Buy fronts, launder money, smuggle contraband, set prices, and outrun the Police, FBI, and INTERPOL as your heat rises. Every deal is a gamble between profit and prison.

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Decompression Interactive
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About the Game

From the Street Corner to World Domination

You start with $50,000 and a single connection. You either end up in prison or with the world in your pocket. Black Market Dealer is a real-time criminal empire builder where every front you buy, every kilo you push, and every official you bribe pulls you one step deeper into a web you may not be able to climb back out of.

There's no rushing the clock. Your empire earns in real time, decisions compound, and the law never sleeps.

Expand the Network

Your empire runs on a living supply chain. Supply Chains generate product, Warehouses multiply your output, and Laundering Businesses turn dirty money clean. Connect them, protect the routes between them, and watch the income flow...or collapse.

  • Three Currencies: Juggle fiat cash, gold bullion, and crypto. Exchange between them, or speculate on the markets to multiply your fortune.

  • Strategic Pricing: Set each product LOW to MAX. Crank the price for more money and more heat, or stay quiet while the crackdown blows over. Sell arms HIGH during a war, drop to LOW when the feds come knocking.

  • Personal Assets: Sink your fortune into appreciating luxury that funds your next move.

Profit or Prison

Crime draws attention. As your heat climbs, a ladder of law enforcement escalates against you. The Police confiscate your cash, the FBI freezes your income, INTERPOL blocks your locations, and the Governments do all three at once. Lay low, bribe officials, donate to charity to clean your image, or resolve a tense INTERPOL Intercept to wipe the slate. Push too hard in the endgame and you arm something far worse than a raid...

With Friends Like These

You are never the only player on the board. Rival cartels claim territory, raid your warehouses, and offer alliances. Cultivate six criminal and law-enforcement factions, then ally, buy out, or eliminate your rivals. A friend today is tribute tomorrow...or a successor seeking revenge.

Different Phases

Climb from a Small-Scale hustle through Organized Crime, an International Operation, a Global Threat, and finally the choice to Rule the World.

Features

  • Real-time empire that earns while you strategize

  • Deep supply-chain network with severable routes and recovery play

  • Faction reputation, rivals, diplomacy, and betrayal

  • Dynamic world events: federal raid waves, cartel wars, market crashes that reshape demand and scrutiny

  • A reactive narrative of handlers, buyers, and a named crew who speak to you as you rise

  • 20+ achievements

  • Multiple distinct endings to discover

How far will you go ?

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